I like the posters as well, though the text should reflect the new CfP.
Please DO change color and shape of the Wikimania logo -- strict visual guidelines haven't been laid out for such logos, and I think this is a wonderful thing. The logo I know and love best online is Google's, which has been modified, skewed playfully and absurdly, and remastered in thousands of interesting, unusual, and unexpected ways.
Every time I see someone respond to an artist's ideas with "thanks, but please stop taking artistic license with project logos," I cringe... why should a free content community project, of all things, be scared of this sort of creative reuse?
SJ
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, phoebe ayers wrote:
On 3/1/07, Jakob Voss jakob.voss@nichtich.de wrote:
Ben Yates wrote:
I redid a couple of the posters from last year (they were made too late to be used for publicity, but I think it's early enough this year).
Thanks, but please follow the visual guidelines and do not change the color and shape of Wikimania logo. So
http://benyates.info/WMPosters/Wikimania%20poster%202.pdf http://benyates.info/WMPosters/Wikimania%20poster.pdf
are not appropiate but
http://benyates.info/WMPosters/Wikimania%20poster%20plain.pdf
is ok. You can add some colors, borders etc but not the the name "Wikimania" and not to the logo.
Heh. You know Ben designed the logo in the first place, right? So I suppose he can redesign it if he chooses... those posters are based on some of the possible mockups from last year. The text is partly based on last year's CfP and other materials; it should be reworked for this year's conference to reflect this year's different CfP.
If the conference is really only going with the original logo with one set of colors, that should be made clear for all the designers. I didn't think there had really been any consensus over whether that logo should be the "official" logo for Wikimania (now and in the future), or whether there can be variations in color, etc. My only opinion is that I like Ben's posters!
cheers, phoebe
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